Asus Zenbook NX500JK – Ultrabook Review

This notebook at a glance attracts attention – chic design, big name, excellent performance, and the price is almost $ 3000. Past this ultrabook is difficult to pass by indifferently, because under the hood of a thin and elegant device hidden huge potential and excellent multimedia capabilities. At least a few years, you will not feel the lack of manpower. So, do not wait to get to know the ultrabook review Asus Zenbook NX500JK – this charming thin laptop premium.

Design: Ultrabook Review Asus Zenbook NX500JK

The enclosure is made entirely from high-strength aluminum, whereby it is resistant to the pressure in any area, even in the region of the cover. Similarly, it is the situation and its retention on loops – it is very firmly held and can be opened with just one hand. The maximum opening angle of fewer than 135 degrees.

The lid has a polished surface, completely non-slip and soft touch. Except for the frame, everything is silver that is universal both in terms of care, and visual perception. In the middle of the lid traditionally logo emblazoned ultrabook review Asus.

The ultrabook review Asus weighs 2.27 kg with dimensions 378h255h19 mm. Ultrabook lightweight, compact, looks really premium. He will appreciate the relatively easy access to internal components, through which completely removes the cover bottom. The latter recorded a few bolts.

Display, sound, webcam: Ultrabook Review Asus Zenbook NX500JK

No more or less modest options ultrabook review Asus, except for the glossy display with a resolution of 3840×2160 pixels, provided by the manufacturer. That is to say, keeps the bar high premium ultrabook – no compromises. The screen is striking in its clarity, 15.6 inches, we can easily immerse themselves in what is happening blockbuster, so the picture looks realistic. The maximum average brightness – 290 cd / m2, this is enough to put the head, and on the street can not say that very badly. Highlighting distributed just perfect, no lit and dark / bright areas – everything is absolutely evenly. Sensor covering works perfectly here supports 10-finger control.

The black level ultrabook review Asus was 0.26 cd / m2, the color is really black, not gray or shades; Contrast 1188: 1 – this is some of the best features that can offer modern matrix IPS IGZO. The viewing angles are, respectively, the maximum. As for color, it should be mentioned, ASUS has taken care of factory calibration, and if you want the even more idealized quality of the screen, make extra. We’ve got to reach 90% in the space of sRGB and 83% – in AdobeRGB.

A pair of speakers Bang & Olufsen ICEpower in ASUS ZENBOOK NX500JK has access to the front panel. Lattices are arranged on either side of the keyboard and are radially arranged holes, whereby the sound is directed straight to the user. Quality speakers at an altitude as sound juicy and balanced. Additionally preinstalled proprietary software AudioWizard, which offers several play modes for the different scenarios.

HD-webcam ultrabook review Asus is the sufficiently broad frame, framing the display panel. It is not so very well take photos and video – is too grainy, the colors dull and medium-sized lettering sometimes even dismantle the plan fails.

Keyboard and Touchpad: Ultrabook Review Asus Zenbook NX500JK

The ultrabook review Asus NX500JK separate numeric keypad is not provided, due to design solution rather than a lack of space. After all, if a little keyboard moved laterally, NumPad loose fit. However, given the orientation of the laptop, it, in general, and not necessary. But the keyboard keys in the island located far away from each other, they have a distinct shape and perfectly distinguishable marking. All the buttons are silver, and the characters are in a dark grayscale.

Using the keyboard ultrabook review Asus is extremely pleased because virtually silent buttons have a rough surface that is suitable for your fingers and high returns. The backlight is bright, three-level – an excellent addition to work in the dark.

The power button disguised as usual, it is hard to notice at first because of the location – in the upper right corner. However, she has a point LED and the corresponding icon. Outside the keyboard, no keys are not provided.

The surface is smooth, on her well slide your finger. When you press the mouse button, separated by a short vertical strip, emit a rather loud clicking sound. It supports multi-touch gestures, but only scrolling and zooming. Apparently, the manufacturer assumes that the user enough of this, there is also a touch screen. It is said that for the top model though it is the small but very bad moment.

Performance: Ultrabook Review Asus Zenbook NX500JK

The ultrabook review Asus ZENBOOK NX500JK-DR018H running the operating system Windows 8.1, which come in handy, given the presence of a touch screen. Options provide the only possible option – a quad-core Intel Core i7-4712HQ with a TDP of 37 watts. Thus, the CPU has substantially the same features as the 48-watt chips, but with a noticeable difference in energy consumption. Core i7-4712HQ running at 2.3-3.3 GHz has 6 MB of cache and a 22-nm architecture Haswell. Unfortunately, the maximum frequency is almost unattainable in the case NX500JK, since as a result of the cooling system are plummeting with increasing load. In general, the processor is only slightly inferior to the single task mode rivals the family Core i7, and almost one-third – in the case of multiple cores.

Built-in video card Intel HD Graphics 4600 with 20 actuators used only for simple graphics tasks, as in all other cases, the work included a discrete adapter NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M (2 GB of memory GDDR5). This middle-class generation accelerator Maxwell (28 nm) with the support of DirectX 11. Its base and turbo speeds are 863 MHz and 953 MHz, respectively; however, in some cases, the operating frequency can fall even below par, to 719 MHz. Of course, the native resolution of the game will not go, but at lower – completely. For example, in 2015 when Battlefield Hardline 1920×1080 and maximum settings fps rate will be 22, and The Crew 2014 only 16. But in the Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare 2014 if the lower settings to high, it will be 39 fps.

The maximum amount of RAM DDR3L-1600 may be 16 GB is provided that eight of them are wired, and a strip 8 positioned in the slot. Our equipment provides 8 GB in total – RAM 4 GB divided according to the principle described.

SSD 512 GB – this is the best possible variant of the suggested manufacturer. He works in the standard PCIE x 4. It is also available on the market more simple version with 128 GB and 256 GB in RAID 0.

Ports and Communications: Ultrabook Review Asus Zenbook NX500JK

Connectors in ultrabook review Asus ZENBOOK NX500JK evenly divided between the two side ends, leaving the front and rear bevel completely empty. And it is quite logical since the front part of the inside takes a huge battery and the back-and-loop mechanism is holding the cover. So, on the left we find the socket for the charger, Mini DisplayPort, HDMI, USB 3.0.

On the right are the combined audio jack, card reader SD, 2hUSB 3.0.

And where is the RJ-45? He is on the adapter USB-Ethernet, which comes complete with a laptop. Still, it was easier to accommodate the network port on one of the faces, especially as space allows.

From wireless communications standard available Wi-Fi 802.11ac and Bluetooth 4.0.

Battery: Ultrabook Review Asus Zenbook NX500JK

The ultrabook review Asus is equipped with a 6-cell lithium-polymer battery capacity of 96 Wh. View movies, with an average brightness of the display, can be for, four hours to surf the internet – about six.

Maximum load “cut down” laptop for a couple of hours. We can not say that the results are phenomenal, which is very strange, given the large battery capacity. Because the average, ASUS ZENBOOK NX500JK concede on the issue of autonomy of his closest rivals – Dell XPS 15 and 15 Apple MBP Retina.

Conclusion: Ultrabook Review Asus Zenbook NX500JK

We will not argue that the ultrabook review Asus ZENBOOK NX500JK very expensive laptop, and that he is not for mass exploitation, rather, for users who prefer a high level in the graphic editors, multimedia. It is powerful, respectable, has a lot of benefits and advantages for today’s buyers. Of course, there are some drawbacks, for example, HD-Webcam, limiting performance or high energy consumption, but they are all fixable, and perhaps in the next version of ASUS listen to the opinion of the consumer and make the perfect ultrabook review Asus NX500JK. But at the present stage it is very worthy of the device and the full-fledged competitor “apple” MacBook and other expensive ultrabooks.